Nicholas Guéguen, of whom we have written again and again, is back, now bearing on flowers: “‘Say it … Near the Flower Shop’: Further Evidence of the Effect of Flowers on Mating,” Nicolas Guéguen, Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 152, no. 5, 2012, pp. 529-532. “For millennia, flowers have been used to convey romance. In […]
Tag: Women
Do Blondes Get More Funds?
Imagine that you’re female, and that you’re involved in door to door fundraising. Would it be best (purely from a financial returns viewpoint) to be blonde or brunette? Assistant Professor Michael K. Price at the Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville has undertaken an investigation : “This study examines how a cosmetic attribute – […]
Men, Women and Parasites: The Pleasantness of Smelling Urine
Still another finding about cats and “fatal attraction”: “Fatal Attraction Phenomenon in Humans – Cat Odour Attractiveness Increased for Toxoplasma-Infected Men While Decreased for Infected Women,” Jaroslav Flegr [pictured here], Pavlína Lenochová, Zdeněk Hodný, Marta Vondrová, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, no. 5, vol. 11, epub November 8, 2012, e1389. The authors, at Charles University and […]
The Sexy-Valuable Research of Kristina and Vladas
Behold the joint publications of Kristina Durante [Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Texas at San Antonio] and Vladas Griskevicius [Associate Professor, Marketing and Logistics, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota]: “The Fluctuating Female Vote: Politcs, Religion, and the Ovulatory Cycle,” Durante, K. M., Arsena, A. R., & Griskevicius, V. Psychological Science (forthcoming). […]
Smooth bodywork in cars and women
Some have asked questions along the lines of : ‘Is smoothness a semiotic resource in which consumption-oriented superficiality interfaces with ideologically gendered images of women and cars on magazine covers?’ Take for example Dr. Mehita Iqani, who is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and who […]
Wrestling women & Aztec mummy: Truth revealed
We have it on good authority that this film sequence is not a genuine record of an anthropological study: (Thanks to investigator Stanley Eigen for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: We do not know whether this, possibly related, film clip is a hoax:
Intoxicated assumptions
Today’s classroom exercise is to [1] read this snippet from a psychology paper, then [2] identify all the assumptions that the authors make about what people think about, then [3] ask yourself if you believe those assumptions. The paper is “What Men Want: The Role of Reflective Opposite-Sex Normative Preferences in Alcohol Use Among College […]
First-hand reportage of Altman’s orgasm
This photo, taken by Patti Sapone, appeared in The Star Ledger. The accompanying caption explains: The volunteer raises her hand to indicate that she is having an orgasim. Dr. Barry Komisaruk, a Rutgers’ based neuroscientist and his team do a brain scan of a 31 year old female volunteer while she masturbates in an MRI […]
Men, Girlfriends Who Sleep With…
Today’s Headline of the Day is from the Science Daily web site: Men More Likely to Stick With Girlfriends Who Sleep With Other Women Than Other Men The press release describes a paper done by a daughter-and-father team [pictured here, at right]: “Sex differences in response to imagining a partner’s heterosexual or homosexual affair,” Jaime […]
Why Do Women Swear?
A study of distaff ejaculations: “Why Do Women Swear? An Exploration of Reasons for and Perceived Efficacy of Swearing in Dutch Female Students,” Eric Rassin and Peter Muris, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 38, no. 7, May 2005, pp. 1669–74. (Thanks to Alisa Frith for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are at […]